Re: Ada grammar

[Ray Blaak <blaak@infomatch.com>]

Geoff Bull <gbull@acenet.com.au> writes:
> I don't see how you can extend this experience to reject the use 
> of ASIS out of hand. ASIS was specifically designed for tools
> such as the originally poster had in mind.

It is not that I am rejecting ASIS so much as defending the position that
writing a custom parser is not unreasonable, especially for a tool that
already has parse engines for other languages and wants to add a new language
parser with minimal impact.

I actually like the idea of ASIS. My knowledge of it is about 8 years out of
date though. Some questions:

01. What is the interface to it? I was understanding it was a collection of
Ada packages. Are there foreign-language bindings to it? I am guessing, for
example that the original poster's reverse engineering tool is not written in
Ada. 

02. Is perfect source reconstruction possible? At the Tri-Ada'92 session I
attended, this was still an eventual goal.

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